| August 11, 3:00 AM
, 2020 | -
Dick Cheney endorsed McCain.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 10, 18:00 PM
, 2020 | - Author Erica Jong told an Italian interviewer, “If Obama loses, it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
| Source:
New York Observer
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| September 19, 2008 | - Vice President Dick Cheney watched a reenactment of the Battle of Chickamauga, the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War, in which his great-great-grandfather fought for the losing Union side.
| Source:
Atlanta Journal-Courier
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| September 5, 2008 | - The United States promised $1 billion in aid to Georgia, and Vice President Dick Cheney visited Tbilisi to pledge continued support. “It's Cheney,” said Russian politician Konstantin Kosachyov, “who was behind all the recent events on the former Soviet turf.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 15, 2008 | - Vesti FM, a Russian state-run radio station, reported that the South Ossetia conflict was part of a plot by Vice President Dick Cheney to prevent Barack Obama from being elected president of the United States,.
| Source:
The Times
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| May 7, 2008 | - David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| March 14, 2008 | - Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad, as did a U.S. congressional delegation that included presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who, earlier in the week, admitted to fears that Al Qaeda or another extremist group might increase their attacks in Iraq in an attempt to hurt his chances in the U.S. election.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
TPM
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| January 26, 2008 | - Selectmen in Brattleboro, Vermont, passed a measure allowing town residents to vote to indict President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for war crimes.
| Source:
Rutland Herald
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| November 21, 2007 | - Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan released an excerpt of his forthcoming memoir. The passage states that he “unknowingly” lied when he denied that White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby participated in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. McClellan vaguely confesses that “Rove, Libby, the vice president [Dick Cheney], the president's chief of staff [Andrew Card], and the President himself” were “involved” in his relaying “false information,” but he stops short of saying that Bush and Cheney knew they were telling him to lie.
| Source:
Slate
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| October 19, 2007 | -
Lynn Cheney announced that her husband and Barack Obama are eighth cousins. “Every family,” said the Obama campaign, “has a black sheep.”
| Source:
BBC
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| October 19, 2007 | -
Lynn Cheney announced that her husband and Barack Obama are eighth cousins. “Every family,” said the Obama campaign, “has a black sheep.”
| Source:
BBC
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| September 22, 2007 | - It was reported that not long ago Vice President Dick Cheney considered asking Israel to launch missiles at an Iranian
nuclear site to kick-start a new war.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 11, 2007 | - A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf war was released to the web. Asked whether U.S. forces should have invaded Baghdad in an attempt to oust Saddam Hussein, Cheney said, “No . . . we would have been all alone . . . It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place?” Cheney described Iraq as a “quagmire,” predicting sectarian conflict and the pointless loss of American lives. “How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, uh, not very many, and I think we got it right.”
| Source:
YouTube
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| July 30, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney described himself as a “unique creature.”
| Source:
Think Progress
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| July 23, 2007 | -
Dick Cheney's biographer revealed that the vice president once considered his future post a “cruddy job.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| July 23, 2007 | - Executive power was transferred to Vice President Dick Cheney for two hours and five minutes while President George W. Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy. Spokesman Scott Stanzel announced that five small polyps had been removed, but “none appeared worrisome,” and the president was soon able to ride his bike.
| Source 1:
MSNBC
Source 2:
AFP via Taipei Times
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| July 2, 2007 | -
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. was set free.
| Source:
Newsday
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| June 27, 2007 | - It was reported that orders given by Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001 to reverse the flow of waters in the Pacific Northwest, against rules set by the Endangered Species Act, left 77,000 salmon rotting on the shores of the Klamath River. The ensuing “commercial fishery failure” required $60 million in federal disaster aid to local fishermen. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, where President George W. Bush and his father took him fishing. “Fishing,” said former President George H. W. Bush, “is good for the soul.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| June 8, 2007 | - Government doctors announced that the machine controlling Dick Cheney's heart was old and should be replaced.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 9, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other leaders. “I do believe that there is a greater sense of urgency now than I'd seen previously,” the Vice President told reporters. Protesters in Karbala burned him in effigy.
| Source 1:
NYT
Source 2:
Reuters via Alertnet
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| April 14, 2007 | - It was announced that President Bush and his wife paid $186,378 in federal taxes on income of $642,905, while Vice President Cheney and his wife owe $413,326 in taxes on income of $1.6 million.
| Source:
Reuters via NYT
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| April 13, 2007 | - A bird flew into the engine of Vice President Dick Cheney's plane while it was en route to Chicago, but the plane made a safe landing.
| Source:
CBS2Chicago
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| April 3, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney attacked the “self-appointed strategists” in Congress who were hampering the Bush Administration's efforts to prolong the war in Iraq,.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| March 5, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney, 66, was being treated for a blood clot in his leg.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| February 28, 2007 | - A suicide bomber attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, killing twenty Afghans, a South Korean, and two Americans but missing his prime target, Vice President Dick Cheney, who has taken to speaking in the first person on the condition of anonymity. “I've seen some reporting,” said the “senior administration official” of his meeting with Pakistani authorities, “that says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.' That's not the way I work.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
San Jose Mercury News
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| February 23, 2007 | - For its temporary embassy in Washington, D.C., the Iraqi government purchased a $5.8-million Tudor-style mansion across the street from the home of Dick Cheney on Massachusetts Avenue. The mansion features a built-in espresso machine, heated floors, soft pistachio carpeting, and a Jacuzzi.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 21, 2007 | - Ted Wells, Scooter Libby's defense lawyer, gave his closing argument. “He's been under my protection for the last month,” Wells told the jurors, “now I'm entrusting him to you.” Then, he sobbed, “Give him back! Give him back to me!” Wells then went back to his chair and sniffled.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 20, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would bring home more than 1,600 of the 7,100 British troops in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney said that the withdrawal was “an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well”; he also said that breaking “the will of the American people” was Al Qaeda's strategy. “They win because we quit.” “Dick was always very realistic,” said Kenneth Adelman, an arms-control official in the Reagan Administration and friend to Cheney. “I don't really understand how month after month he gets briefings showing Iraq's getting worse and worse, and he engages in all this happy talk.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Fox News
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| February 14, 2007 | - Defense attorneys for I. Lewis Libby Jr. declared that neither Libby nor Vice President Dick Cheney would take the stand.
| Source:
NYT
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| January 25, 2007 | - The perjury trial of former vice-presidential aide I. Scooter Libby began. Cathie Martin, former communications director for Vice President Dick Cheney, testified that the government often releases bad news late on Friday. “Fewer people pay attention to it,” she explained. CIA official Craig Schmall testified that Libby had met with Tom Cruise to discuss the treatment of Scientologists in Germany. Libby “was a little excited about it,” he recalled; Schmall said that he too had been excited.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| December 6, 2006 | - It was revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's
lesbian daughter is pregnant.
| Source:
CNN
|
| October 28, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney denied that “waterboarding,” a banned interrogation method, was the same thing as giving a terrorist detainee a “dunk in water.” He also said his term as “Vice President for Torture” was over.
| Source:
VOA News
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| August 8, 2006 | -
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost the Democratic
Senate primary election to anti-Iraq-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announced that he would run as an independent candidate, and that “Team Connecticut” would “surge forward to victory.” Vice President Dick Cheney said that Lamont's victory was encouraging to “Al Qaeda types.”
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| July 2, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney's heart was said to be functioning properly.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 22, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney discussed his similarities to Darth Vader, and said that reporters offend him.
| Source:
CNN
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| April 12, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney, who will receive a $1.9 million refund on his 2005 taxes, was booed at a Washington Nationals baseball game, where he threw out the first pitch. “I have never, ever,” said one fan, “heard anyone get booed like that man.”
| Source 1:
The Washington Times
Source 2:
The Mercury News
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| April 8, 2006 | - It emerged that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury that when he leaked classified information favorable to the case for war in Iraq to New York Times reporter Judith Miller, he was acting under the specific authorization of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush authorized the leak even though the intelligence in question (regarding Saddam Hussein's
nuclear ambitions) was considered unreliable by key administration members such as then Secretary of State Colin Powell.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| March 6, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney's approval rating fell to 18 percent.
| Source:
CBS News
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| February 27, 2006 | - It was rumored that Cheney would retire in 2007.
| Source:
Insight on the News
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| February 18, 2006 | -
Texas
attorney Harry Whittington apologized for the trouble he caused when he was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney.
| Source:
Chron.com
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| February 12, 2006 | - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot and severely injured a fellow hunter while hunting quail at a friend's 50,000-acre Texas ranch.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 9, 2006 | -
Dick Cheney was retaining fluids.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 22, 2005 | - The Senate, with Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote, cut $40 billion in funding for foster care, child support, and student loans.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| November 18, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney visited Iraq and informed American soldiers that he was not Jessica Simpson. He also watched as Iraqi soldiers holding imaginary guns practiced a vehicle sweep.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| November 18, 2005 | - Patrick Fitzgerald announced that he would call a new grand jury to investigate the Valerie Wilson case.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 17, 2005 | - A White House document showed that executives from large oil firms met with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force in 2001; the document was released a week after representatives from those firms testified before a Senate committee that they had not met with the task force.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| November 16, 2005 | -
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward admitted that a “senior administration official” had revealed the identity of Valerie Wilson to him one month before administration officials revealed Wilson's identity to anyone else. The official is apparently neither I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. nor Karl Rove. Condoleezza Rice denied any involvement.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
UPI
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| November 15, 2005 | - Ahmad Chalabi met with Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Washington, D.C.
| Source:
AP
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| November 5, 2005 | - Vice President Dick Cheney was pressuring Republican senators to grant the CIA an exemption from a proposed ban on torturing terrorism suspects. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, suggested that Cheney was ultimately responsible for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere. “There was a visible audit trail,” he said, “from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field.”
| Source:
The Seattle Times
|
| November 4, 2005 | - I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| October 28, 2005 | - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, also known as "Cheney's Cheney," was indicted on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 16, 2005 | -
The New York Times
finally published an account of reporter Judith Miller's involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. At issue in the case is a notebook in which Miller had written the name “Valerie Flame”; Miller said she could not recall the source of the name, even though she had used the same notebook to interview I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff. “We have everything to be proud of,” said Miller. It was reported that both Libby and Karl Rove would probably resign if indicted.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Time
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| October 16, 2005 | - Lynne Cheney said that her husband Dick will not run for president in 2008.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 6, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. “Scooter” Libby wrote a letter to New York Times journalist Judith Miller, giving Miller permission to testify about their confidential conversations. “Out West,” wrote Libby, “where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life.” Many felt that Libby was writing in some kind of code.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
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| September 8, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney toured the South. "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney," yelled Ben Marble, a Mississippi physician who lost his home in the hurricane. "Go fuck yourself." Marble was handcuffed and later released.
| Source:
OpEdNews.com
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| August 31, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney cancelled a trip to the oil sands of Alberta, Canada.
| Source:
Fort McMurray Today
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| July 11, 2005 | -
Terrorists set off bombs on three trains and a bus in London, killing fifty-two people, despite the fact that in 2003 Dick Cheney said that “our military is confronting the terrorists, along with our allies, in Iraq and Afghanistan so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence in Washington or London or anywhere else in the world.”
| Source 1:
The Scotsman
Source 2:
The White House
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Virginia
Representative Jim Moran described Bush as someone who does not read books, who surrounds himself with sycophants, and who has his ass kissed by Dick Cheney.
| Source:
The Raw Story
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| April 28, 2005 | - President George W. Bush was sent to the underground bunker at the White House and Dick Cheney was escorted to a secure location after a very scary cloud turned up on government radar.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| April 14, 2005 | - Entomologists named three newly discovered species of slime-mold beetle after George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.
| Source:
USA Today
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| January 29, 2005 | - World leaders gathered in Poland to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where Dick Cheney was criticized for wearing a green parka with fur trim instead of the more somber black coats everyone else had on.
| Source:
The Chicago Sun Times
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| November 12, 2004 | -
Dick Cheneyappeared to have an enormous penis.
| Source:
Milwaukee Magazine
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| October 20, 2004 | -
President Bush accused Senator John Kerry of using "old-style scare tactics" in his campaign for president; Vice President Dick Cheney warned that John Kerry isn't strong enough to win the war on terrorism, especially if a nuclear bomb goes off in the middle of one of our cities.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | -
Cheney
claimed that he had never before met Senator Edwards; newspapers then published a photograph of the two men smiling and speaking together at a prayer breakfast.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 6, 2004 | - Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards had harsh words for each other during their debate.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 7, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney said that electing John Kerry could lead to another terrorist attack.
| Source:
USA Today
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| September 5, 2004 | - It was reported that Cheney's presence on the Republican ticket will either help or hinder President Bush.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| September 2, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney said that John Kerry is unfit to be president.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 1, 2004 | - Alan Keyes, the Illinois Republican Senate candidate, declared that Dick Cheney's
lesbian daughter is "a selfish hedonist."
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 25, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney said that he opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage; he explained that he has a gay daughter and that marriage policy is best left to the states.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Cheney said he felt much better after he told Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been critical of Halliburton's war profiteering in Iraq, to go fuck himself.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 24, 2004 | - The Supreme Court declined to make Dick Cheney release the records of his 2001 Energy Task Force and sent the case back to a lower court for further consideration.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 19, 2004 | - Dick Cheney said that he "probably" had access to better intelligence information than the 9/11 commission; the commission chairmen then called on Cheney to provide them with any documents that could substantiate his claims.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 18, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney responded to the reports by attacking the New York Times.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2004 | - Vice President Dick Cheney was interviewed by prosecutors investigating the illegal disclosure of a covert CIA agent's identity.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | - An Army Corps of Engineers email revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's office "coordinated" Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar Iraq contract; Cheney has said that he had nothing to do with the contract, which was awarded without competing bids.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| May 9, 2004 | - "Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had," said Vice President Dick Cheney. "People ought to let him do his job."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 3, 2004 | - President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met for several hours with the 9/11 commission, though they refused to permit the interview to be recorded or transcribed; two Democratic members of the commission had to leave early because they had other appointments.
| Source:
Seattle Times
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| April 17, 2004 | - Bob Woodward reported in a new book that Colin Powell warned President Bush that if he invaded Iraq he would have to face the "you break it, you own it" rule. "You're going to be the proud owner of 25 million people," Powell told the president in the summer of 2002. "You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You'll own it all." Powell also let it be known that Dick Cheney was the "powerful, steamrolling force" behind the decision to invade.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 25, 2004 | - Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who has criticized the Bush Administration for its poor efforts at fighting terrorism and its misguided invasion of Iraq, appeared before the commission investigating September 11 and apologized for the government's and his own failure to prevent the attacks. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice have all refused to testify publicly before the commission.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 10, 2004 | -
CIA director George Tenet revealed that he has privately corrected Dick Cheney several times after the vice president publicly "misconstrued" intelligence.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 28, 2004 | - Powerful Republicans were said to be urging President Bush to get rid of Dick Cheney, who continued to insist, contrary to all evidence, that stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq, and that Saddam Hussein was allied with Al Qaeda. "Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?" Cheney asked an interviewer. "It's a nice way to operate, actually."
| Source:
Asia Times
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| February 23, 2004 | -
Halliburton, the former employer of Vice President Dick Cheney, was running television commercials pleading that its lucrative government contracts in Iraq were granted "because of what we know, not who we know."
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 12, 2004 | -
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended his duck-hunting trip with Dick Cheney and said he did not plan to recuse himself from a case involving the Vice President's shadowy energy task force.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 28, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney gave the pope a crystal dove.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 23, 2004 | - Vice President Dick Cheney defended Halliburton, which continues to pay him a salary, from what he said were "desperate attacks" by opponents of the Bush Administration. "They're rendering great service," he said. "They do it because they're good at it, because they won the contract to do it. And frankly the company takes a certain amount of pride in rendering this kind of service to U.S. military forces."
| Source:
CNN
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| January 1, 2004 | - It was reported that the CIA is planning to set up a new secret police force in Iraq, modeled after the Phoenix program of the Vietnam War, that will ensure the United States retains control over the country after official sovereignty passes to a native government. The secret plan, of which Dick Cheney was the purported secret author, will cost $3 billion and will be funded from the CIA's secret budget.
| Source:
London Telegraph
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| December 9, 2003 | - Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly killed more than 70 farm-raised ringneck pheasants during a "canned hunt" in which 500 of the birds were released for the pleasure of Cheney and nine companions; the men were credited with 417 pheasants and an undisclosed number of ducks.
| Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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| August 28, 2003 | - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, has received more than $1.7 billion in military contracts in Iraq, far more than was previously known. It was noted that the practice of outsourcing logistical operations to private contractors was pioneered by Cheney during the first Gulf War when he was secretary of defense. Brown and Root won the first such contract, and Cheney was hired as CEO of Halliburton soon afterward.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 27, 2003 | -
He also said that he doesn't "know anybody in any government or any intelligence agency who suggested that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons"; it was immediately pointed out that Vice President Dick Cheney made precisely that claim in March.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2003 | - Douglas Feith, an undersecretary at the
Pentagon, denied what he called the "urban legends" that the Pentagon
lied about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction or that intelligence
analysts were pressured to come up with slanted reports. "I can't
rule out what other people may have perceived," he said. "Who knows what people perceive? I know of
nobody who pressured anybody."
| Source 1:
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Source 2:
Toronto Star
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| May 29, 2003 | - President Bush signed a bill permitting a record-breaking $984 billion increase in the amount the government is allowed to borrow, raising the limit to an historic $7.4 trillion; the next day Bush signed his new tax cut, which could save Dick Cheney
$100,000 a year.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 15, 2003 | -
The Army Corps of Engineers revealed that the Pentagon contract to fight oil fires in Iraq, which was awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's most recent private employer, will be worth up to $7 billion. The contract was given without the usual competitive bidding process.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Two Spanish warships intercepted a shipment of Scud missiles from North Korea off the coast of Yemen; American forces confiscated the missiles but later had to give them back after the president of Yemen called Dick Cheney and complained.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
The Bush Administration warned foreign diplomats that their countries could lose all military aid unless they pledge never to turn over American soldiers to the International Criminal Court. A spokesman for Representative Tom DeLay, who wrote the provision of the antiterrorism law that authorizes such threats, said that “this is just an effective tool, and we have said numerous times that we have to do whatever it takes to protect our service members from this rogue court.” Vice President Dick Cheney told Iraqi opposition leaders that the United States was committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein and installing a democratic replacement, who would then be treated as a major ally.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A federal judge told the White House that specific reasons must be given for withholding records from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which are being sought in a lawsuit charging that energy companies had inappropriate influence on the proceedings, and that claims of “executive privilege” are not sufficient.
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| July 2, 2002 | -
President Bush extended death benefits to same-sex partners of officers killed in the line of duty and officially transferred his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for a few hours while doctors inserted a lighted scope up his rectum.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
In 1999 that confession and other information led to a widely distributed intelligence analysis by the Library of Congress warning that “suicide bomber(s) belonging to Al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency or the White House.” Vice President Dick Cheney warned that a new Al Qaeda attack on the United States was “almost certain.” A trucking industry group offered the services of the nation's truckers in the war on terrorism.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
Preparing for a potential strike against Iraq, the United States plucked Vice President Dick Cheney out of hiding and sent him touring Arabia to summon support from the region's leaders.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
Secret Service agents accidentally left a security plan for Vice President Dick Cheney on the counter of a skateboard store in Salt Lake City; the agents had purchased nine Olympic hats as souvenirs.
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| February 26, 2002 | -
The General Accounting Office filed suit against Vice President Dick Cheney to force him to reveal the identities of energy-company executives who advised him in his drafting of the administration's energy policy last year.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
The General Accounting Office said it would file suit to force Vice President Dick Cheney to turn over records of his meetings with Enron officials, with whom he met five times to discuss energy policy.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Vice President Dick Cheney, citing executive privilege, was still refusing to release the records of his five meetings with Enron executives to discuss energy policy.
People were beginning to use the word “cover-up.”
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| January 15, 2002 | -
Vice President Dick Cheney, who also has close ties to Enron, was still hiding out somewhere.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney said that suspected terrorists “don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been hiding out in an undisclosed location, observed that there might be a connection between the anthrax cases and the September 11
attacks.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney was still refusing demands by the General Accounting Office to turn over records concerning the White House energy plan.
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| August 7, 2001 | -
Cheney's aide, Mary Matalin, formerly a television personality, said the energy task force had nothing to hide but would continue to hide it anyway.
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| July 24, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney thought it would be a good idea for the Navy to pay his $186,000 home electric bill.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney received a pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney was in trouble for using his official residence to raise campaign funds.
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| May 22, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney announced his energy plan.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush asked Vice President Dick Cheney to figure out what to do about terrorism.
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| May 1, 2001 | - The Pope asked President Bush to show mercy for McVeigh; Vice President Dick Cheney said no way.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was indicted for “plunder.” Vice President Dick Cheney said he thought the United States should build some more nuclear power plants; “I think I am a pretty good environmentalist,” he said.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney
did not have another heart attack.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush, a former oil man, named Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oil man, to head a special task force to devise ways to increase the profits of oil companies.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Dick Cheney had an itsy-bitsy heart attack, which was described by his doctors as “the smallest possible heart attack that a person could have that could still be classified as a heart attack”; one of his coronary arteries was “about 90 to 95 percent blocked.”
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| November 28, 2000 | -
George W. Bush announced Cheney did not in fact have a heart attack.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney said he would forfeit $3.5 million in stock options if he were elected; he also released tax forms showing that his income increased from $258,394 in 1992 to $4,423,289 last year.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Dick Cheney confirmed that he will receive some $20 million in retirement benefits from his former employer, an oil company.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney, his father's secretary of defense during the Gulf War, to be his running mate.
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